IMPENDING DOOM?

WHAT CAN AN IMPENDING DOOM, LIKE DEATH, DO TO YOU, SAYS HEIDEGGER?

MAN LOSES HIS POTENTIALITY (CARE/ FUTURE PLANS IN LIFE) FOR BEING

HEIDEGGER'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF DEATH

PHENOMENON ?

EVENT/ EXPERIENCE

PHENOMENOLOGY

MANIFESTATION OF THE EVENT

BEING THROWN IN THE WORLD

Dasein

Alongside with things (concern/ care)

Being with others (solicitude)

THE POSSIBILITY OF MY ABSOLUTE IMPOSSIBILITY

INAUTHENTIC DASEIN

AUTHENTIC DASEIN

NON-RELATIONAL

FREEDOM FROM THE “THEY”

BEING THROWN IN THE WORLD

TO EXIST = ACTUALIZATION OF POTENTIALS

BEING TOO ABSORBED ON THINGS & PEOPLE

Alongside with things (concern/ care)

THE AHEAD OF ITSELF OF DASEIN = FUTURE PLANS

Alongside with things (concern/ care)

RESULTS TO IGNORANCE OF DEATH

TO BE ENGROSSED ON IMMEDIATE CONCERN ON

THINGS

DEATH

LOST OF “THERENESS”

WE LOSE OUR POTENTIALITIES

THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING “CUT” OFF FROM OTHERS & THINGS (CARE)

IT IS A MUST AND IT IS NECESSARY = I CANNOT ESCAPE ITTHE POSSIBILITY OF MY

ABSOLUTE IMPOSSIBILITY

ANXIETY = DREAD = INDETERMINATE

FEAR IS DETERMINATE

HEIDEGGER'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF DEATH

CAN WE EXPERIENCE THE TRANSITION FROM DASEIN

TO NON-DASEIN?

“THEY”

OUR FIRST EXPERIENCE OF DEATH?

DEATH OF OTHERS

We never experienced the death of another as he himself experienced it

DEATH IS ALWAYS MINE

“THEY” CAUSES

INAUTHENTICITY TO DASEIN

HIDES DEATH DEATH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH US

SOMETHING NOT YET AT HAND

OFFERS NO THREAT

INAUTHENTIC DASEIN

MAN LOSES HIMSELF TO THE “THEY”

INAUTHENTIC DASEIN?

GIVING NEW EXPLANATION TO THE POSSIBLE IMPOSSIBLITY

TO DENY WHAT IS CERTAIN

AMBIGUOUS ATTITUDE OF THE “THEY”

BEING TOWARDS DEATH AND CAREExistence, in the ‘ahead-of-itself’Facticity, in the ‘being-already-in’Falling, in the ‘being-alongside’

EVERYDAY BEING-TOWARDS-DEATH-INAUTHENTICITY

AUTHENTIC BEING TOWARDS DEATH

Care has the following characteristics of Dasein’s being1. Existence, in the ‘ahead-of-

itself’ (FUTURE)Death as something impending: the possibility of being cut off

from others and from things.something that I cannot outstrip

2. Facticity, in the ‘being-already-in’ (PRESENT)

revealed only in the basic mood of man = anxiety (indeterminate)

3. Falling, in the ‘being-alongside’ (FUTURE)

Many are ignorant of deathFleeing in the face of death:

concealment

BEING TOWARDS DEATH AND CARE

ANNIE NIELSEN: BEING TOWARDS DEATH AND CAREExistence, in the ‘ahead-of-itself’?

Facticity, in the ‘being-already-in’?

Falling, in the ‘being-alongside’ ?

The ‘they’: hides deathnot yet present-at-hand, therefore offers no threatDenial of certaintyHe loses himself in the

‘they’Anxiety in the face of death

is taken as a sign of :weaknessman is constantly

evading death

EVERYDAY BEING-TOWARDS-DEATH-INAUTHENTICITY

Response to death Not evasion as imposed by the ‘they’

Facing this possibility of death = SUICIDE? Facing is not actualizing! suicide demolishes all the potentialities of

man Authentic means:

Anticipation of death’s certainty provide us with ‘vision’/ understanding

‘carpe diem’ Vision = present existence vs. potential

possiblities mind that is open to the constant threat of

anxiety What to do with the ‘they’?

death does not belong to everybody, but to one’s own self

Being-with-others (solicitude) NON-RELATIONAL = SEPARATION

FROM THE “THEY” = FREEDOM TO BE WHATEVER HE WANTS TO BE

AUTHENTIC-BEING-TOWARDS-DEATH

KARL ROHNER’S NOTION OF DEATH

AUTHENTIC SELF TO ACCEPT OR

REFUSE

OPEN TO TRANSCENDENCE

END OF DESIRES (CONCUPISCENCE)

DEATH = FINALITY ON ENDLESS POTENTIAL INDETERMINATE MISTAKES = FUTURE

EMBRACING THE ULTIMATE GOOD